Crevette
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Classification:
8 W-O[ Tazetta ]
Season:
Mid-Season
Height:
Dwarf - less than 32.5 cm (12.8 in)
Variation:
Daffodil color or division may vary as the bloom reaches full maturity.
Year of first flowering:
1967
Hybridizer:

John W. Blanchard

b 1930, crd 1954.
Blandford, Dorset, England.
In partnership until 1968 with Douglas Blanchard

John W. Blanchard
, England, UK
Registered:
Yes, 1992
Awards:

Ralph B. White Memorial Medal Award

This plant was awarded the Ralph B. White Memorial Medal as the best new daffodil cultivar exhibited to the Society during the year.

This medal is provided from a fund bequeathed by Ralph Bernard White. It is awarded to the breeder (or if deceased to the principal cultivar stockholder) of the best new daffodil cultivar exhibited at one of the Society's shows in London during the year, and must be 'new' in the sense that its name has not been registered more than 5 years previously.

It may be awarded annually, at the discretion of the Daffodil & Tulip Committee.

Awarded by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1995.Ralph B. White Memorial Medal 1995; 
Special Classes:
ADS Miniatures

The American Daffodil Society maintains a "Suggested List of Miniature-Sized Daffodils".

A miniature single floreted cultivar normally possess a flower less than 50 mm (1.97") in natural spread.

For a multi-floreted miniature daffodil the guideline measurement for the floral mass is 72mm (2.83") in natural spread.

The ADS requires show exhibitors to enter miniature daffodils only in classes for specific for miniatures.

Any named, numbered, or species daffodil which appears graceful, with all its parts proportionately small, may be exhibited in Miniature classes and is eligible for all ADS awards

, The Daffodil Society Miniatures
Seed Parent: 
Mahmoud 3 W-R 
J. Lionel Richardson, Ireland
Year Registered: 1937
Folly x Sunstar
Mahmoud
Pollen Parent: 
N. dubius Division 13 Species
Section: Tazettae
N. dubius
Seedling Number:
61/44A
Pedigree Chart:
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Descendants:
None
Comments

Usually 2-3 per stem forming a double triangle, 35 mm wide; corona cup-shaped, loosely ribbed, opening pale orange, becoming paler, sometimes with yellow at base, mouth straight, even or a little wavy, with rim entire. Corona matures to YOO or YYO unless kept shaded.

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CrevetteCrevette, 8 W-O, John W. Blanchard, England, 1992
Photo #59732 Sue Taylor, EnglandCrevetteCrevette, 8 W-O, John W. Blanchard, England, 1992
Photo #59729 Sue Taylor, EnglandCrevetteCrevette, 8 W-O, John W. Blanchard, England, 1992
Photo #59690 Sue Taylor, EnglandCREVETTECrevette, 8 W-O, John W. Blanchard, England, 1992
Photo #59644 Michael Baxter, EnglandCREVETTECrevette, 8 W-O, John W. Blanchard, England, 1992
Photo #59594 Michael Baxter, EnglandCrevetteCrevette, 8 W-O, John W. Blanchard, England, 1992
Photo #59073 Christopher Harley, USACrevetteCrevette, 8 W-O, John W. Blanchard, England, 1992
Photo #54203 John E. Colley, EnglandCrevetteCrevette, 8 W-O, John W. Blanchard, England, 1992
Photo #52687 Michael Baxter, EnglandCrevetteCrevette, 8 W-O, John W. Blanchard, England, 1992
Photo #50759 Kirby Fong, USACrevetteCrevette, 8 W-O, John W. Blanchard, England, 1992
Photo #40993 Kirby Fong, USACrevetteCrevette, 8 W-O, John W. Blanchard, England, 1992
Photo #39619 Kirby Fong, USACrevetteCrevette, 8 W-O, John W. Blanchard, England, 1992
Photo #39508 Kirby Fong, USACrevetteCrevette, 8 W-O, John W. Blanchard, England, 1992
Photo #13042 Tom Stettner, USACrevetteCrevette, 8 W-O, John W. Blanchard, England, 1992
Photo #8558 Jon Kawaguchi, USACrevetteCrevette, 8 W-O, John W. Blanchard, England, 1992
Photo #8465 Tony James, EnglandCrevetteCrevette, 8 W-O, John W. Blanchard, England, 1992
Photo #6572 Kirby Fong, USACrevetteCrevette, 8 W-O, John W. Blanchard, England, 1992
Photo #4020 Tony James, EnglandCrevetteCrevette, 8 W-O, John W. Blanchard, England, 1992
Photo #1467 Kirby Fong, USA